Search - Slightly Wicked (Bedwyn Family, Bk 4)

This book is one of those "I'll just read one more chapter, then I'll ... go to sleep, do the laundry, make dinner, etc., etc. - with all the best intentions - but you just keep reading! (Sound familiar??)

Readers will be delighted with Balogh's new series that features the half-dozen members of the Bedwyn family first met in A Summer to Remember. In Slightly Wicked, third son Rannulf picks up a fetching young woman whom he believes is an actress stranded in the rain due to a coach crash. Judith Law, a parson's daughter, is traveling to her aunt's home to live as a poor relation and has decided to have one fling, one chance to not spend the remainder of her sure to be desolate life as a virgin. Pretending to be an actress, she accompanies Rannulf to an inn where they make passionate love before she slips away to take up her duties as an unpaid servant in her aunt's country house. When Rannulf turns up as a likely suitor for her cousin, complications abound. The Bedwyn siblings are the most fascinating romance protagonists to come along since Jude Devereaux's Montgomery brothers in the 1980s, and Balogh's sensuous Regency-era romances set the standard. They are not to be missed.

This is my absolute favorite of the "Slightly " series. I love that the heroine thinks herself not pretty at all, even to the point of being embarrassed about her looks. And the book has some wonderful twists you never expect. It's one of my favorites of all Mary Balogh books.

I read this despite some bad reviews I read elsewhere, and could not believe that this was the same book people were saying was boring! I loved this book so much! Judith was a great heroine! I related to her in so many ways, and desperately wanted to see her perfect romance end so well, and it did!

You can't help but feel sympathy for Judith when you read the scenes with her terrible, self-absorbed cousin, and her evil, cruel aunt. Rannulf was indeed a great hero, and the two belonged together. Their story was so exciting to read, I couldn't put this down!

The "Slightly" books about the Bedwyn family are some of Mary Balogh's best, and this one, and the previous one, "Slightly Married" are my favorites in the series.

Judith Law is on her way to her wealthy aunt's house to be a companion to her Grandmother when her stagecoach overturns. She is soon rescued by Rannulf Bedwyn who believes her to be an actress and invites her to spend one night of passion with him. After parting ways, Judith is shocked to see Rannulf again, this time he arrives at her aunts to woo her cousin.

Great Book. It was hard to put down. I enjoyed seeing the hero and heroine fall in love. Can't wait to read my next Bedwyn story.